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At first blush the insistence of the surgeon turned minister, Professor Lord Ara Darzi, that the NHS should have "quality of care at its heart" seems a statement of the blindingly obvious. After all, every decent medic aims at caring well. But the emphasis on quality running through the report Lord Darzi published yesterday was in fact distinctive and important. More important, indeed, than the draft NHS constitution, also published yesterday, which - despite the grand title - is principally a tidying up exercise. For, during a turbulent decade in the service, the overriding concern in Whitehall has been quantity instead.
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NHS review: Darzi plan offers patients more choices and more information - The Guardian 1st July 2008
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Competition, constitution, and improving patients' rights - The Guardian 1st July 2008
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Polly Toynbee: For all the hyperbole, Bevan would have approved of this - The Guardian 1st July 2008
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Richard Smith: Lord Darzi's report is full of worthy ideas - the challenge lies in making them happen - The Guardian 30th June 2008
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NHS review to push for more nurse-led care - The Guardian 27th June 2008
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Leading article: The right medicine, but far too mild a dose - The Independent 1st July 2008
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Nurses' clinics to compete with GPs' surgeries - The Independent 27th June 2008
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Analysis: a classier NHS, but choice still an illusion - The Times 1st July 2008
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NHS review: hospitals that provide poor care to be fined - The Times 1st July 2008
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Key points of the draft NHS Constitution - The Times 1st July 2008
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An exercise in flawed logic at the NHS - The Times 30th June 2008
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Letters to The Telegraph - The Telegraph 1st July 2008
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Politicians must heed the voters over NHS reform - The Telegraph 30th June 2008
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NHS review to push for more nurse-led care - The Guardian 27th June 2008
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Leading article: The right medicine, but far too mild a dose - The Independent 1st July 2008
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Nurses' clinics to compete with GPs' surgeries - The Independent 27th June 2008
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Analysis: a classier NHS, but choice still an illusion - The Times 1st July 2008
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NHS review: hospitals that provide poor care to be fined - The Times 1st July 2008
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Key points of the draft NHS Constitution - The Times 1st July 2008
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An exercise in flawed logic at the NHS - The Times 30th June 2008
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Letters to The Telegraph - The Telegraph 1st July 2008
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Politicians must heed the voters over NHS reform - The Telegraph 30th June 2008
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Darzi NHS review: Sick and elderly to get right to die at home - The Sunday Telegraph 29th June 2008
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NHS patients to be given life-saving drugs more quickly - The Sunday Telegraph 29th June 2008
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NHS: The nation fears for its future - The Sunday Telegraph 29th June 2008
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NHS hospital death rates to be published under Lord Darzi plans - The Telegraph 27th June 2008
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Quality ranking key to NHS funds - BBC Health News 30th June 2008
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NHS overhaul plans to be laid out - BBC Health News 30th June 2008
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Drug approval for NHS to speed up - BBC Health News 29th June 2008
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NHS hospital death rates to be published under Lord Darzi plans - The Telegraph 27th June 2008
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Quality ranking key to NHS funds - BBC Health News 30th June 2008
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NHS overhaul plans to be laid out - BBC Health News 30th June 2008
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Drug approval for NHS to speed up - BBC Health News 29th June 2008
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A year after the ban, advocates for free puffing make a powerful case. But they fail to recognise choice is about class, too Last week, friends and supporters of the smokers' lobby group Forest raised a doleful cigarette to the first anniversary of the smoking ban in England. On the terrace of a smart private members' club in London's Belgravia, the redoubtable David Hockney - a regular contributor to the letters page of this newspaper on the subject - bemoaned for the umpteenth time the Labour government's curtailment of his liberties, fag in hand.
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Southern Cross Healthcare, Britain's largest operator of care homes for the elderly, has been forced into emergency talks with its banks after yesterday failing to meet a £46m loan repayment deadline, busting through a significant debt covenant. The heavily indebted group has been unable to sell a number of property assets to repay costly bridging loans used to fund a rush of care home purchases in recent months.
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Diet: Women warned that junk food in pregnancy may hit child's health - The Guardian 1st July 2008
Mothers who eat a junk-food diet in pregnancy may seriously damage the long-term health of their child, according to research published today. The study, funded by the Wellcome Trust, was carried out on rats, but scientists say they have every reason to believe that human babies may suffer as much harm as the offspring of rodents from exposure in the womb to high levels of fats, sugar and salt.
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Junk food mothers could condemn unborn children to a life of ill health - Daily Mail 1st July 2008
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Mother's junk food 'harms child' - BBC Health News 1st July 2008
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Junk food mothers could condemn unborn children to a life of ill health - Daily Mail 1st July 2008
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Mother's junk food 'harms child' - BBC Health News 1st July 2008
Soldiers sent to Iraq were not made ill by the multiple vaccinations some received before their deployment, according to a study published today. Being given too many jabs at once has been suggested as a possible cause of Gulf war syndrome and the illness some military personnel have reported after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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World Health Organisation: New rapid tests for multi-drug resistant TB - The Guardian 1st July 2008
A drive backed by substantial funds to tackle the tide of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) spreading around the world was announced by the World Health Organisation yesterday. Diagnostic tests which take two days instead of three months will be introduced in developing countries where drug resistance is rapidly increasing. Funding will also be made available for antibiotics - currently much more expensive than the basic TB treatment - needed by people who have multi-drug resistant disease.
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An A-grade student from one of the poorest areas in the country has had an offer of a place on a prestigious medical course withdrawn after admissions officers ruled that a spent criminal conviction meant he could not be trusted to become a doctor. Majid Ahmed, 18, from Little Horton in Bradford, lost an appeal against the decision by Imperial College London to bar him from its medicine degree, a move that youth justice charities labelled discriminatory and MPs called unfair.
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Medical ethics? - The Guardian 1st July 2008
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While women should have access to a full choice of contraceptive methods, buying the pill on the internet presents huge risks to the many disadvantaged young women who lack sexual health education (Contraceptive pill goes on sale online, June 23). With only 49% of young people aware of where their local sexual health clinic is and with the rising number of sexually transmitted infections, there is a huge need for young people to be more informed on sexual health issues.
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Health officials yesterday called for a safe sex campaign aimed at the middle-aged after a sharp rise in sexually transmitted infections in the over-45s. Cases more than doubled among the age group between 1996 and 2003, according to figures compiled from 19 sexual health clinics by the Health Protection Agency.
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Sex and the Saga generation send STI rates soaring - The Times 30th June 2008
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STI rate has doubled in a decade among over-45s due to 'sexual risk-taking' - Daily Mail 30th June 2008
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Sex diseases 'double in over-45s' - BBC Health News 29th June 2008
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STI rate has doubled in a decade among over-45s due to 'sexual risk-taking' - Daily Mail 30th June 2008
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Sex diseases 'double in over-45s' - BBC Health News 29th June 2008
Migrant builder took home £8.80 for a week - The Guardian 30th June 2008
Eastern European migrants working on the construction of a £600m NHS hospital have been taking home as little as £8.80 for a 39-hour week, the Guardian has learned, in what has been described by union bosses as one of the worst instances of employee abuse in the building sector since EU enlargement.
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The number of smokers successfully quitting has soared because of the smoking ban in England, which celebrates its first anniversary this week. Research shows that almost 235,000 people managed to stub it out with help from the NHS in the nine months from April to December 2007 - a rise of 22 per cent on the year before. The figures, in a Department of Health report to be published next week, are being used as evidence that the smoking ban in enclosed public spaces has been a success.
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This party's such a drag - The Observer 29th June 2008
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Smoking ban has saved 40,000 lives - The Independent 30th June 2008
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Stephen Pound: I threw away my cigarettes the day after voting for the ban - The Independent 30th June 2008
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Leading article: The birthday of the ban - The Independent 30th June 2008
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Smoking ban forces record numbers to quit - The Telegraph 28th June 2008
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Smoking ban spurs 400,000 people to quit the habit - Daily Mail 30th June 2008
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Smoking ban 'to save many lives' - BBC Health News 30th June 2008
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This party's such a drag - The Observer 29th June 2008
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Smoking ban has saved 40,000 lives - The Independent 30th June 2008
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Stephen Pound: I threw away my cigarettes the day after voting for the ban - The Independent 30th June 2008
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Leading article: The birthday of the ban - The Independent 30th June 2008
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Smoking ban forces record numbers to quit - The Telegraph 28th June 2008
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Smoking ban spurs 400,000 people to quit the habit - Daily Mail 30th June 2008
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Smoking ban 'to save many lives' - BBC Health News 30th June 2008
Millions have been spent on the NHS since Labour pledged to reform it 10 years ago - so why does the incoming president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists think the state of some wards is so dire that he would not let his own family use them? Social affairs correspondent Amelia Hill reports
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Psychiatric patients 'feel lost and unsafe' - The Observer 29th June 2008
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Mentally ill are 'jollied along' rather than treated by psychiatrists - The Times 27th June 2008
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Key Labour activists oppose greater private-sector involvement in the provision of public services, a survey suggests today. Two thirds of Labour constituency chairman and women said they thought Gordon Brown was wrong "to encourage more private involvement in health and education".
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Legislation is making it increasingly difficult for childless couples to find a sperm or egg donor When you're told that it will be impossible to have your partner's children, it feels like a bereavement. True, it's only the death of a fantasy – the fantasy that you and the love of your life might be able to produce a human being who's an endearing amalgamation of both your imperfections – but by the time you find out, you'll often have been trying for at least a year to make that fantasy flesh, and its loss feels substantial.
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When T and D were really tiny, me and my sister, S, were in and out of the baby clinic all the time, and always on about which percentile they were on, and wasn't it interesting how the one with the bigger feet (T) was also the heavier.
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Gordon Brown's "deep clean" policy to rid hospitals of lethal superbugs was branded an expensive failure after it was revealed that most health trusts had failed to carry out the procedure properly. The Prime Minister ordered a £57m clean-up of 1,500 NHS hospitals in England last autumn, in an attempt to halt the rise of hospital-acquired infections including MRSA and Clostridium difficile (C. diff).
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Midwives and maternity groups are urging the Government to extend a new law to give mothers the legal right to breastfeed babies more than six months old in public. Women already have some protection to breastfeed in places such as stations, restaurants and bars, but there are still cases of mothers being thrown out when staff complain that they are breast feeding.
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Britain's NHS drugs watchdog has for the first time terminated an assessment of a powerful new cancer medicine because of a row about its price with the manufacturer. The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Nice), which approves drugs for use on the NHS, is involved in a stand-off with the pharmaceutical company, Roche, which means NHS patients cannot get access to the latest Roche cancer treatment, Avastin.
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Family secrets: I hoped bulimia would make me beautiful - The Times 1st July 2008
Anorexic at the age of 12 and bulimic until she was 30, a reader tells of the deceit she embarked on to keep her disorder from family, friends and lovers - and how she finally faced reality
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The Government’s attempt to reduce alcohol-related disorder by introducing 24-hour drinking has failed dismally, according to a survey.
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Vomiting and brawls just come a little later with 24-hour drinking - The Times 1st July 2008
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Councils see smoking as greater problem than violence says Hazel Blears - The Times 1st July 2008
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24-hour drinking 'is failure that has cost us £100m' - Daily Mail 1st July 2008
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24-hour drinking 'is failure that has cost us £100m' - Daily Mail 1st July 2008
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Family secrets: I hoped bulimia would make me beautiful - The Times 1st July 2008
Anorexic at the age of 12 and bulimic until she was 30, a reader tells of the deceit she embarked on to keep her disorder from family, friends and lovers - and how she finally faced reality
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A national food poisoning alert linked to meat and fish products has been issued after a fraud of least £2million, The Times has learnt. The Food Standards Agency and police have issued the warning amid fears that unsafe food, including chicken, lamb and seafood, is being sold cheaply to cash-and-carry outlets, wholesalers and the catering industry.
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Aneira Thomas has relied on the NHS all of her life, through births and bereavements, accidents and emergencies, good times and bad. When she was born at one minute past midnight on July 5, 1948, nurses and midwives at Amman Valley Hospital, Carmarthenshire asked if they could name her after the founder of the NHS, Aneurin Bevan.
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NHS 60 years on: snails, snow and Matron - The Telegraph 30th June 2008
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Doctor's diary - The Telegraph 30th June 2008
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Oh nurse, how you've changed: The women who've served the NHS in each decade describe their experience - Daily Mail 1st July 2008
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Oh nurse, how you've changed: The women who've served the NHS in each decade describe their experience - Daily Mail 1st July 2008
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The government is to allow organs to be taken from people before they are officially brain dead in an effort to tackle the shortage of transplant donors. Guidelines being published in September will allow transplant surgeons to begin removing organs five minutes after a donor’s heart has stopped.
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A 55-year-old librarian who advertised on London buses for an egg donor in a desperate attempt to become a mother, gave birth to a baby girl this month after 14 years of trying to start a family. Linda Weeks, from Maidstone, Kent, said no words could describe her gratitude to the woman who came forward to donate eggs and help her realise her dream of motherhood.
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Couple who advertised on buses for an egg donor reveal their new baby girl - Daily Mail 30th June 2008
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Baby girl born after bus adverts - BBC Health News 30th June 2008
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EIGHT out of 10 GPs back the right of patients to top up their NHS care with additional drugs without having their state-funded treatment withdrawn, writes Sarah-Kate Templeton. Only 18% of family doctors support the current system of forcing patients to pay for all their care if they choose
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'Top-ups' are the way to get better treatment - The Telegraph 30th June 2008
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Max Pemberton on dealing with patients addicted to drugs The woman in front of me snarls and looks away. "Won't you just help me for God's sake," she says sharply. I put down my pen and look at her. She looks up, her nostrils flaring. "Nobody can stop you taking drugs. Only you can do that," I continue. I explain again that we can give her medication to take away the cravings for heroin, to stem the withdrawal symptoms, but it's up to her, and her alone, to stop using drugs.
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Nutritional therapist Julia FitzGerald offers easy tips for healthier living. This week: how to manage your hormones As many as nine out of 10 women are affected by PMS or menstrual symptoms. More heartening is news that, for many, diet can make all the difference.
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A supermarket chain warned that it could undermine Scottish National Party plans to crack down on cheap alcohol by building distribution centres over the border in England and selling discounted drink on the internet. Asda said there was nothing to stop it and other supermarkets putting up new warehouses in northern England and transporting booze to homes in Scotland.
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People who pick on and abuse the elderly will be treated more harshly under a government crackdown to be announced next month. New rules to be published by the Crown Prosecution Service will say criminals should be given longer sentences if there is evidence they singled out elderly targets because of their vulnerability.
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A mother who was told six months ago that she had suffered a miscarriage, has given birth to a healthy daughter. Catherine Kent, 27, spent a month carrying what she believed was a dead child, after a scan at Sunderland Royal Hospital appeared to show she had lost the baby.
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Robin Sheppard remembers precisely when he took his last unaided steps. Visiting his elderly father in the run-up to Christmas three-and-a-half years ago, he'd decided to go to bed early because he was feeling under the weather. He walked up stairs, assuming all he needed was a good night's sleep. Yet within 24 hours he had collapsed and was flat on his back on the landing, paralysed and in excruciating pain.
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The baby that will die in two weeks unless he gets a donor heart for his first birthday - Daily Mail 1st July 2008
For 11 long months Theo Davies has battled to stay alive. Now, it has all come down to 14 days. Doctors have warned his devastated parents that without a heart transplant, Theo will not survive another fortnight. Ryan Davies and Rebecca Giles are begging for a donor to help their 11-month-old son who is on a life-support system in hospital.
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Health chiefs have urged parents to get their children to move around during television advert breaks. They are also told to discourage snacking in front of the TV and refrain from giving children treats as a reward. The advice comes in an NHS leaflet aimed at curbing obesity. Called 'Your Child's Weight', it gives a series of tips which underline how seriously the Department of Health views the child obesity epidemic.
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A woman is pregnant with the first baby in Britain guaranteed not to get hereditary breast cancer. Doctors screened the woman’s embryos and removed an inherited gene that would have left the baby with a 50 to 85 per cent chance of developing the cancer.
Drug addicts and alcoholics behind £3bn increase in disability benefit - Daily Mail 28th June 2008
Disability benefits are costing taxpayers an extra £3.1billion a year under Labour - and a major factor is a massive rise in the number of claimants who are drug addicts and alcoholics, according to newly released documents. Over the past ten years, the Disability Living Allowance (DLA) budget has soared from £5.7billion to £8.8billion a year - enough to build 20 new 'super hospitals'.
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Pot-holed roads, crumbling schools, litter-strewn streets – there’s no shortage of problem areas crying out for their attention. But councils believe they have found a better use for their money: reducing the number of holes in chip shop salt shakers. Research has suggested that slashing the holes from the traditional 17 to five could cut the amount people sprinkle on their food by more than half.
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Failures in care by medical professionals, social workers and parents are responsible for one in four child deaths, according to a Government-backed report. A panel of experts reviewed 126 deaths in one year and found 'avoidable factors', such as doctors misdiagnosing a serious illness or giving the wrong treatment, in 26 per cent of cases. A further 43 per cent were due to 'potentially avoidable factors' – including missing important immunisations or delays in treatment.
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New Year's Eve 2007, and the O2 Arena in South-East London was ringing with the sound of fans singing and dancing to Take That, as the re-formed boy band ran through their latest songs and greatest hits. Among the fans was TV and radio presenter Richard Bacon with his future wife Rebecca McFarlane, 29, head of marketing for Capital Radio.
Whether it's whole, skimmed, semi-skimmed or Jersey - we consume eight and a half billion pints of cow's milk a year in the UK. Dairy products are our major dietary source of calcium, a mineral that plays an important role in bone development and maintenance.
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EastEnders actor John Partridge would not be on our screens were it not for his knees. The 36-year-old joined the cast earlier this year as Christian Clarke, the gay brother of Ian Beale's wife Jane, and quickly became a favourite on the show. But John actually started out as a dancer until repeated injury forced him off the stage and in front of the camera.
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Put down the ketchup, and step away from the frying pan - because nutritionists have turned their fire on our weekend eating habits. The Food Standards Agency is warning consumers of the high levels of saturated fat in fry-ups and other Saturday treats.
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The smoking ban is being extended to the buildings and grounds of mental health hospitals in England. The sites were given an extra year to bring the smoking ban into effect to help patients quit the habit.
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Too little of one type of cholesterol has been linked by research to memory loss and Alzheimer's disease. UK and French scientists studied 3,673 civil servants, revealing low levels of "good" cholesterol were associated with poor memory. Doctors might be able to uncover high-risk patients using blood tests, they said in a US heart journal.
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The public are not opposed to the state interfering in their lives to get them to become healthier, a BBC polls shows. The government has been accused of acting like a nanny state in the past over some of its public health initiatives.
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Picking up an infection is the public's main concern about hospital care, a UK-wide BBC poll shows. Of the 1,040 people quizzed, 40% listed the risk of potentially deadly infections such as MRSA and Clostridium difficile as their top NHS concern.
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Using a child's body mass index (BMI) as a measure of the success of exercise targets may be misleading, say experts. UK researchers could find no difference in BMI between those exercising regularly and those missing targets.
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A hospital has recalled 96 patients because of concerns that they were treated with contaminated equipment. Leicester Royal Infirmary said between 30 May and 6 June a machine in the endoscopy unit used to decontaminate instruments was not working properly.
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The world is still at risk from a new pandemic strain of flu according to leading scientists. The H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus has been out of the headlines for some time but experts say it still poses a potential threat.
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Five babies in a special care unit have tested positive for the superbug MRSA, health officials said. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said traces of MRSA were detected on the skin of the babies at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley.
Patients with suspected cancer have had urgent appointments postponed at a top London hospital because of problems with the new NHS computer system. It is one of a series of problems faced by Barts and The London NHS Trust since the IT system went live in April, according to Computer Weekly magazine.
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Women who are depressed during pregnancy can have babies who develop more slowly than their peers, a UK study suggests. Postnatal depression is known to cause this, but the researchers say antenatal depression can have its own impact.
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Fertility experts have called for a dramatic cut in the number of twins born after IVF treatment. IVF clinics in the UK will be expected to reduce the number of multiple births from a national average of one in four to 10% over the next three years.
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A simple test for gene faults which increase the risk of breast cancer is getting nearer, UK scientists suggest. If given to all women at the age of 30, those found to be at highest risk could be regularly screened for signs of disease, they say.
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Women are more likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis later in life if they were heavy at birth, according to a major study of the debilitating joint condition, which affects 400,000 people in Britain. The findings, based on patient records of more than 87,000 women aged between 30 and 55 when the US Nurses' Health Study began in 1976.
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A ground-breaking treatment which cured cancer in mice is to be tested on humans by US researchers. It follows the discovery five years ago of a laboratory mouse that astonished scientists with an immune system which gave it complete protection from cancer.
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They're in millions of mouths worldwide, but have been linked to heart disease and Alzheimer's. Now a report concedes they may have a toxic effect on the body Amalgam dental fillings – which contain the highly toxic metal mercury – pose a health risk, the world's top medical regulatory agency has conceded.
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Children 'at risk' from mercury in dental fillings - The Sunday Telegraph 29th June 2008
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Mercury fillings ARE dangerous say regulators - but British health bosses still refuse to take action - Daily Mail 30th June 2008
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Hope of new breakthrough as US authorities give go-ahead to treat 22 patients with white blood cells In a major breakthrough in the search for a cure for cancer, the first human trials are to begin using a technique that has already been shown to destroy the disease in mice. The trials are the culmination of years of research prompted by the discovery of a cancer-proof mouse by researchers almost a decade ago.
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Film star Christopher Reeve was best known for playing Superman until he was paralysed from the neck down after a riding accident in 1995. He then became a tireless campaigner for the disabled, raising millions for research. He survived ten years of near total immobility but died of complications in 2004, aged 52. His wife, Dana, 44, died unexpectedly of cancer in March 2006, leaving their son Will, then 13, an orphan. A new book tells their remarkable story.
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Sudden hearing loss could be a warning sign of increased stroke risk, Taiwanese research suggests. People hospitalised for sudden hearing loss had more strokes in the following five years than otherwise healthy appendicitis patients.
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An 11-year-old Romanian girl who is 21 weeks pregnant after being raped by an uncle will be able to have an abortion, even though it is forbidden by law. A government committee said the procedure should go ahead due to the exceptional circumstances of her case.
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Aids epidemic a 'global disaster' - BBC Health News 26th June 2008
The Aids epidemic in some countries is so severe that it should be classified as a disaster, the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) has warned. The crisis fits the UN definition of a disaster as an event beyond the scope of any single society to cope with, says the IFRC.
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